In Which Dr Blumpkin PhD Identifies and Appraises YOUR Transformers

[KSUblumpkin]

Looks like it is go time pimps.  I'm ready to appraise.

[KSUblumpkin]

Steel yourselves for the future struggle as you will not have access to enough sticks to beat away the fine young women that will be chasing after you in your Nissan Fairlady 280Z.



But wait. It dude transforms into a walking man with arms that is not technically a transformer obviously! 



So rad. So valuable.

This fine quality ride that will undoubtedly get you the babes and can be yours for the low price of 8 to 15 dollars.  Though it is a go-bot (named Zeemon which is clearly a warning to the fillies on the level of Zeemon that will be in and around the facial area).  This is a family blog so I'll keep it clean.  Good little toy here.

[KSUblumpkin]

Also have lots of gi joe stuff, can you appraise that too?

I didn't collect gi joe stuff at all.  I couldn't tell you much on the current state of the market.  I will say that dino riders stuff is worth a ton of money.  They were extremely rare and only around during a limited window so collectors go nuts for those.

Edit: also worth a ton of money these days are M.A.S.K, He-Man, WWF wrestling toys from the 90s, and battle beasts.  Star Wars (before the 90s Power of the Force line) is obviously worth bank.  Power Rangers stuff is surprisingly doing well along with Beast Wars stuff from the 90s.

Things to watch out for...vintage gaming is on the rise with hipsters.  In the last year, 8-bit nintendo games have quadrupled in value.  It is definitely something to keep an eye on.  I recently bought an original gameboy at a garage sale for a quarter and sold it for 24.99 on ebay. 

[puniraptor]

Ok here is a bunch of literal hold nuggets that I am reasonably sure are transformers related and of immeasurable value to a guy who has all the other pieces but his mum just vacuumed up the right fist or something.

[KSUblumpkin]

Ok here is a bunch of literal hold nuggets that I am reasonably sure are transformers related and of immeasurable value to a guy who has all the other pieces but his mum just vacuumed up the right fist or something.

These parts are actually where all the money is at.  For example, The Maroon head and fist and red chest piece belong to your broken dick Transformer (the main body to Computron).  Those three parts are worth somewhere in the neighborhood of about 30 to 35 dollars.

The black head is from Silverbolt.  The head itself is the piece that forms Superion's head (from those fun Aerial bots).  Worth about 15 bucks. 

The gray belt, hat and gun are to a pretender named landmine.  It was red and yellow.   Those aren't worth too much (maybe 8-10 dollars together).

The light purple gun is to your Bristleback Transformer (that ugly pretender dude with a light purple shell that formed a piece of Monstructor).  That piece alone is worth about 15 - 20 bucks.

The two blue guns that match go to a pretender Transformer named Bomb-burst.  Those usually go in the 10-15 dollar range (there is a list right now on ebay for 13.34 for the two matching blue guns).

Just another day making bank Puni.

[puniraptor]

Blumpz you are a machine ( good way )

Going to take Dino Riders inventory and check back.

[Rams]

Also have lots of gi joe stuff, can you appraise that too?

I didn't collect gi joe stuff at all.  I couldn't tell you much on the current state of the market.  I will say that dino riders stuff is worth a ton of money.  They were extremely rare and only around during a limited window so collectors go nuts for those.

Edit: also worth a ton of money these days are M.A.S.K, He-Man, WWF wrestling toys from the 90s, and battle beasts.  Star Wars (before the 90s Power of the Force line) is obviously worth bank.  Power Rangers stuff is surprisingly doing well along with Beast Wars stuff from the 90s.

Things to watch out for...vintage gaming is on the rise with hipsters.  In the last year, 8-bit nintendo games have quadrupled in value.  It is definitely something to keep an eye on.  I recently bought an original gameboy at a garage sale for a quarter and sold it for 24.99 on ebay.

I had a crap ton of he-man stuff (greatest cartoon in history) but I don't know what happened to it. 

[puniraptor]

This is a D R quetzalcoatlus.

[puniraptor]

This is a D R quetzalcoatlus.

i should have never opened that box  http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dino-riders-Quetzalcoatlus-Yungstar-rare-MISB-MIB-unopened-new-Rulon-/271274634937?pt=US_Action_Figures&hash=item3f293a6eb9

[KSUblumpkin]

This is a D R quetzalcoatlus.

i should have never opened that box  http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dino-riders-Quetzalcoatlus-Yungstar-rare-MISB-MIB-unopened-new-Rulon-/271274634937?pt=US_Action_Figures&hash=item3f293a6eb9

Whoa ( ).  I knew they were worth some money but not that kind of money.  I should have collected more Dino Riders and less hot wheels stuff back in the day.

[CNS]

That is crazy.  That is the cheapest, and lamest, looking toy in this thread.   

[puniraptor]

thats just the unopened stuff, the regular trashed stuff like what i have doesnt seem to be worth much more than gijoe.


Interesting fact I learned: TYCO sold the same dinosaurs in sciency smithsonian branded dinosaur toys and used the same dinosaur models but with saddles and guns and crap for dino riders.

That is crazy.  That is the cheapest, and lamest, looking toy in this thread.   

I didn't take to time to find the guns and armor and crap or you would feel differently maybe!

[CNS]

thats just the unopened stuff, the regular trashed stuff like what i have doesnt seem to be worth much more than gijoe.


Interesting fact I learned: TYCO sold the same dinosaurs in sciency smithsonian branded dinosaur toys and used the same dinosaur models but with saddles and guns and crap for dino riders.

That is crazy.  That is the cheapest, and lamest, looking toy in this thread.   

I didn't take to time to find the guns and armor and crap or you would feel differently maybe!

Doubtful.

[Dr Rick Daris]

you guys, a couple of months ago i was at a friend of a friend house type thing in kc. this guy rents the house from some girls dad or something and it's a fine house with big back deck or whatever. point is, it's fine. anyway about half way into the night somebody is like oh god go show daris the basement. so i'm like oh god what's in the basement? then the guy i was with was like oh yeah you'll get a kick out of this and i'm like what am i going to get a kick out of? then he took me through the messiest room that i've ever seen in my life and i think it used to be the garage but i guess it's part of the house that nobody goes in because it's just filled w/ crap. like tons of crap from the dad or whoever lived there before or whatever. anyway, there are stairs and we climb over the crap go get to them and go down. it's an unfinished basement and it's kind of dark but we have my flashlight phone app or whatever and i look to the right and holy crap you guys. it is just the most amount of baseball cards that i've ever seen in my life but it's not just baseball cards. upon closer look it's football and basketball and hockey too and not just cards but like box upon box upon box of twenty and thirty and forty year old unopened wax packs and when i say a lot there is a lot you guys and it is taking me a while to get my bearings. that's when i fully take in the whole basement and that's when i realize that omg what i just saw was maybe 1/30th of what was down there and that it isn't even just sports cards it's sports memoribilia and unopened sports action figures from like 1982 and not just a couple but like hundreds and i think pro wrestlers too and boxes upon boxes of cards and unopened sets and ET the extra terrestrial cards and stars wars cards and just everything you could think of that was made between i'd say 1977-1997. it was unreal. just unreal. i'm guessing that the house is maybe worth 130k and what was in the basement was worth at least that much. if i ever go back i'll take pictures. sorry i don't have pictures or that there isn't more to the story but omg i just, i mean, i think there could be over 130k in that basement easy it was just crazy. i was down there for a half an hour just looking and still didn't see much of it. just box upon box upon box upon stuff hanging from the ceiling and pinned on the wall. like 15 unopened gary carter action figures from 1983. just weird you guys.

[yoEMAW]

This is a D R quetzalcoatlus.

i should have never opened that box  http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dino-riders-Quetzalcoatlus-Yungstar-rare-MISB-MIB-unopened-new-Rulon-/271274634937?pt=US_Action_Figures&hash=item3f293a6eb9

Oh man. I don't even want to know how many fortunes my walking brontosaurus with the lazer pods hanging off each side would fetch these days. That son of a bitch cost me $50 back in '89... my entire earnings from the Crayola Coloring Contest that year.

[Dr Rick Daris]

like hey, you want two hundred gary thurmond rookie cards? ok no problem. just go to this house and find the room with a bunch of crap in it, then walk down the stairs and look to your right. they are over there somewhere.

[puniraptor]

daris you are a great storyteller which combos nicely with your arsenal of great stories

[KSUblumpkin]

you guys, a couple of months ago i was at a friend of a friend house type thing in kc. this guy rents the house from some girls dad or something and it's a fine house with big back deck or whatever. point is, it's fine. anyway about half way into the night somebody is like oh god go show daris the basement. so i'm like oh god what's in the basement? then the guy i was with was like oh yeah you'll get a kick out of this and i'm like what am i going to get a kick out of? then he took me through the messiest room that i've ever seen in my life and i think it used to be the garage but i guess it's part of the house that nobody goes in because it's just filled w/ crap. like tons of crap from the dad or whoever lived there before or whatever. anyway, there are stairs and we climb over the crap go get to them and go down. it's an unfinished basement and it's kind of dark but we have my flashlight phone app or whatever and i look to the right and holy crap you guys. it is just the most amount of baseball cards that i've ever seen in my life but it's not just baseball cards. upon closer look it's football and basketball and hockey too and not just cards but like box upon box upon box of twenty and thirty and forty year old unopened wax packs and when i say a lot there is a lot you guys and it is taking me a while to get my bearings. that's when i fully take in the whole basement and that's when i realize that omg what i just saw was maybe 1/30th of what was down there and that it isn't even just sports cards it's sports memoribilia and unopened sports action figures from like 1982 and not just a couple but like hundreds and i think pro wrestlers too and boxes upon boxes of cards and unopened sets and ET the extra terrestrial cards and stars wars cards and just everything you could think of that was made between i'd say 1977-1997. it was unreal. just unreal. i'm guessing that the house is maybe worth 130k and what was in the basement was worth at least that much. if i ever go back i'll take pictures. sorry i don't have pictures or that there isn't more to the story but omg i just, i mean, i think there could be over 130k in that basement easy it was just crazy. i was down there for a half an hour just looking and still didn't see much of it. just box upon box upon box upon stuff hanging from the ceiling and pinned on the wall. like 15 unopened gary carter action figures from 1983. just weird you guys.

As a total nerd, I would have loved that basement.  Those star wars packs (from empire strikes back and return of the jedi) are worth tons of money.  If there were any Garbage Pail Kids cards, sealed wax packs, good god that is a ton of money per pack.  Depending on the series they can go for 10 bucks a pack.  Oh crap...if there are any Magic The Gathering cards in there...whoa.  I doubt there is, but it sounds as though this dude (which I am guessing has to be a dude) collected just cards in general.  If there are any Magic The Gathering cards from back in the day...those can go for hundreds for just one unopened pack.  That stuff in the basement paid for that house.  Unreal!  Nice story RD!

[Dr Rick Daris]

you guys, a couple of months ago i was at a friend of a friend house type thing in kc. this guy rents the house from some girls dad or something and it's a fine house with big back deck or whatever. point is, it's fine. anyway about half way into the night somebody is like oh god go show daris the basement. so i'm like oh god what's in the basement? then the guy i was with was like oh yeah you'll get a kick out of this and i'm like what am i going to get a kick out of? then he took me through the messiest room that i've ever seen in my life and i think it used to be the garage but i guess it's part of the house that nobody goes in because it's just filled w/ crap. like tons of crap from the dad or whoever lived there before or whatever. anyway, there are stairs and we climb over the crap go get to them and go down. it's an unfinished basement and it's kind of dark but we have my flashlight phone app or whatever and i look to the right and holy crap you guys. it is just the most amount of baseball cards that i've ever seen in my life but it's not just baseball cards. upon closer look it's football and basketball and hockey too and not just cards but like box upon box upon box of twenty and thirty and forty year old unopened wax packs and when i say a lot there is a lot you guys and it is taking me a while to get my bearings. that's when i fully take in the whole basement and that's when i realize that omg what i just saw was maybe 1/30th of what was down there and that it isn't even just sports cards it's sports memoribilia and unopened sports action figures from like 1982 and not just a couple but like hundreds and i think pro wrestlers too and boxes upon boxes of cards and unopened sets and ET the extra terrestrial cards and stars wars cards and just everything you could think of that was made between i'd say 1977-1997. it was unreal. just unreal. i'm guessing that the house is maybe worth 130k and what was in the basement was worth at least that much. if i ever go back i'll take pictures. sorry i don't have pictures or that there isn't more to the story but omg i just, i mean, i think there could be over 130k in that basement easy it was just crazy. i was down there for a half an hour just looking and still didn't see much of it. just box upon box upon box upon stuff hanging from the ceiling and pinned on the wall. like 15 unopened gary carter action figures from 1983. just weird you guys.

As a total nerd, I would have loved that basement.  Those star wars packs (from empire strikes back and return of the jedi) are worth tons of money.  If there were any Garbage Pail Kids cards, sealed wax packs, good god that is a ton of money per pack.  Depending on the series they can go for 10 bucks a pack.  Oh crap...if there are any Magic The Gathering cards in there...whoa.  I doubt there is, but it sounds as though this dude (which I am guessing has to be a dude) collected just cards in general.  If there are any Magic The Gathering cards from back in the day...those can go for hundreds for just one unopened pack.  That stuff in the basement paid for that house.  Unreal!  Nice story RD!

in fairness, anyone that goes down there would absolutely freak out over how much just stuff there is, the crap conditions in which it's all being kept and the crazy room you have to climb through to get down there. 

i looked around for maybe twenty minutes and took way less than 5% of it in. you could easily spend a full week just looking through stuff. the guy who is living there is/was looking for a new job and i joked that he could just quit his current one and live for the next 5 years just by putting a couple of things on ebay every day. just file cabinets full of cards and then boxes and boxes just stacked and stacked and tons of stuff hanging from the ceiling. it wasn't just sports but sports stuff probably compromised a good 90-95% of it. like hey, who wants thirty unopened '97 donruss full sets? that guy apparently. seven 1984 unopened andrew dawson actions figures? why not! most of it not worth anything (aforementioned 150 gary thurmond rookies) but i have no doubt there is a lot down there that is. will take pictures if i go back.

[puniraptor]

I had a dream that featured a batmobile transformer toy. Is there such thing as a batman batmobile transformer or could it maybe have been a prophecy?

[AzagthothForKSU]

Just a few:


and it looks like some company made a Batmobile Transformer:

[puniraptor]

 

[KSUblumpkin]

This thread was too great and it is my fault it died.  I just moved into a new house so I will try to take some hot pics of some of the toys that I found while packing up my old house. 

[puniraptor]

i used to have that stegosaurus rough rider as seen above. prolly worth millions?

[KSUblumpkin]

Just a few:


and it looks like some company made a Batmobile Transformer:

Some really good stuff here.  Metroplex in the back is pretty awesome.  The dude to his left (our right) is built from the pieces of Metroplex.  It is one toy.  If there is a little black car in Metroplex's right (our left) boob...that would be awesome.  I'd say the Metroplex is worth anywhere from 50 - 75 dollars.  He looks to be in good shape. 

Optimus Prime on the right is a second wave (I can tell by the light blue color legs he has. First wave Prime would have super deep/rich purple).  With no parts whatsoever, still around 10 bucks.  If it were first wave, it would be 20.

The cop car on the left is named Siren.  He is a headmaster so his head will come off and Transform into a little dude.  With what I see, probably around 50 dollars for him.  The head alone is worth around 40 dollars as those heads easily get lost over the years and people need that head (pun intended) to complete the toy.

The Mircroscope is Perceptor.  Total pimp.  With what I see...probably 15 bucks.  He looks to be in really good shape.

The hot rod dude is Rodimus Prime.  He is missing just about everything, but still would get you 10 bucks.

The Stegosaurus is name Snarl.  Without any parts, probably 15 to 20 dollars.

Last but not least is the saddest thing I have seen...parts of Megatron.  He looks like he has seen better days.  Still probably 10 to 15 dollars.


The market for old Transformers toys (just the bodies/without any parts) has skyrocketed in the last year.  People have been spending huge dollars on old junk bodies to customize, repaint and re-purpose.